Paul Dickson

War Slang

This updated, 2nd edition published in late 2003 is a comprehensive collection of fighting words and wartime phrases that Americans have used from the Civil War to the Iraq War. Beginning with a brief overview of the Revolutionary War, War Slang reveals the thoughts, attitudes, and environments of America's fighting men and women from the last 230 years. This incomparable reference work serves the language lover and military historian alike.

In our globally interconnected age, misnaming where someone is from or the cultural group to which they belong often constitutes more than a harmless social gaffe. Labels for Locals provides guidance on the preferred, and sometimes disdained, names for selected locales, cities, regions, countries, and ethnic groups worldwide.

The all but forgotten but dramatic story of WWI vets from their historic march on Washington in 1932, to demand the bonus promised them for their wartime service, to the passage of the GI Bill which was their lasting legacy.